CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR SUSTAINABLE RETROFITTING OF UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BUILDINGS

Abstract

Energy retrofitting along with environmental protection and social benefits is critical for campus sustainability. Most of the universities fail to fully appreciate the significance of sustainable retrofitting mainly due to lack of realization. This research is aimed at identifying the critical success factors (CSFs) that contribute towards successfully achieving sustainable retrofitting of university campus buildings. A multi-disciplinary literature review and thorough interviews with sustainability coordinators, academic researchers, professors and industry experts were conducted to distil the success factors contributing towards campus sustainability retrofitting implementation. Such an identification and description of CSFs has not been subject of comprehensive study as such, as evident from a thorough review of existing literature. Factors were grouped into six categories based upon their interconnectedness. For research purpose and to fully investigate the significance of specific success factors, Vensim PLE and @Risk5.5 software were used to check the interdependency of CSFs and to run sensitivity analysis. Sensitivity analysis analyzed the impact of CSFs on sustainable retrofitting and provided 0.679 and 0.38 as the upper and lower limits for the model to check any project to be sustainably retrofitted or not. Such factors for sustainable retrofitting of university campus will be helpful for policy makers, planners and practitioners in integrating the dimensions of sustainability, including environmental, economic and social, more effectively towards the reification of sustainable campus.